Francesca Peacock

Familiar scenarios: Our Evenings, by Alan Hollinghurst, reviewed

Public school crushes, adolescent freedoms at Oxford, first jobs and homosexual affairs in London – Hollinghurst’s latest novel seems like a reworking of all his previous books

Alan Hollinghurst. Credit: Alamy
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    Picador, pp. 487, £22

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